In Lynn Case, Parental Rights
Are at Odds With Integration

By

Daniel Golden Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated June 3, 2002 12:01 a.m. ET

LYNN, MASS. -- More than 80% of neighborhood children attending Pickering Middle School here are white.

But 37% of its 705 students -- sixth, seventh and eighth graders -- are black, Hispanic or Asian. Most come by public transit from all over this blue-collar Boston suburb -- an option unavailable to white children. Under Lynn's desegregation plan, whites from other neighborhoods generally can't transfer to Pickering, which has the...